Battle of Iller River

Battle of Iller River
Part of the War of the Second Coalition
Early 20th century bird's-eye view shows the Iller River and Erolzheim, looking south. North is at the bottom.
Date 5 June 1800 Location Erolzheim, Germany 48°05′28″N 10°04′19″E / 48.09111°N 10.07194°E / 48.09111; 10.07194 Result French victory
Belligerents
Republican France	Habsburg Austria
Commanders and leaders
Jean Moreau Antoine Richepanse Michel Ney	Paul Kray Archduke Ferdinand Count Baillet
Strength
55,000 infantry, 2,780 cavalry	28,000
Casualties and losses
700 killed & wounded, 300 captured	800 killed & wounded, 1,100 & 4 guns captured
class=notpageimage| Location within Germany

The Battle of Iller River or Battle of Erolzheim (5 June 1800) saw a French Republican army led by Jean Victor Marie Moreau fight a Habsburg Austrian army led by Paul Kray. In late May, the adversaries reached a stalemate with the Austrian army holding Ulm and the French army facing it from the south. Both armies numbered about 80,000 men. Kray launched an attack against the French left wing along the Iller River at Erolzheim and Illertissen, but he withdrew his troops when Moreau sent reinforcements. The action occurred during the War of the Second Coalition, part of the French Revolutionary Wars.^[1]

The Iller River flows north past Memmingen, Erolzheim, and Illertissen in southern Germany and enters the Danube at Ulm.^[2]